Playing the Building: An installation by David Byrne

Allied Works’ Brad Cloepfil presents the winning design for a new performing arts building in Calgary

An Interview with Glenn Murcutt

Walter Gropius – The Dessau Bauhaus

24 City – Movie Trailer

A movie for anyone interested in China and the consequences of rapid development. A factory is demolished, like so many others, to make way for condos. Workers and their families are overlooked and displaced from their long time homes and facing the challenges of finding new work. This is one story that echos across the country, affecting millions of people. Unfortunately this side of China’s economic success and architectural growth is overshadowed by the flashy building designed by the global starchitects. Check out the preview, hunt down the full film. It’s well worth it.

Bjarke Ingles: Interveiwed by Brijuni Arquitectos – Part V

Bjarke Ingels People´s Tower from brijuni arquitectos on Vimeo.

Part V of the interview with Bjarke Ingles illuminates the development of the idea for their People’s Tower project in Shanghai. Its a bit scary to me, that the same design (although scaled up) is relevant for Sweden and China. I think designing for the specific context is incredibly important for successful architecture. I am sure they manipulated the design and adapted it to respond to local climate, culture, surroundings, etc. It does seem to fit within the flamboyant skyline of shanghai more than the subdued landscape of Sweden.

Bjarke Ingles: Interveiwed by Brijuni Arquitectos – Part IV

Part IV of the Bjarke Ingels Interview shows their housing projects in Copenhagen, the VM Houses and The Mountain villas.

Bjarke Ingles: Interveiwed by Brijuni Arquitectos – Part III

Part III of the interview continues the conversation of the Lego Towers.

The Architecture of Shigeru Ban

This video, from the Wall Street Journal, is a short interview with Shigeru Ban. He discusses his architecture, his use of interesting materials such as paper tubes as structural elements, and talks about his believe that architects need to work for all sorts of clients, not just the rich elite. I am a huge admirer or Shigeru ban’s work and even applied to his Tokyo office a couple of years ago. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if he was awarded the next Pritzer Prize although he will have some competition from Steven Holl and Sanaa.

Bjarke Ingles: Interveiwed by Brijuni Arquitectos – Part II

Part II of the Bjarke Ingels interview introduces is to BIG’s Lego Towers project. Unfortunately the giant, 2 m tall model build out of Legos is out of the office and only shown on a poster. But it is an interesting design, none the less.